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Venkat Arun

Assistant Professor
Computer Science, UT Austin

Email: venkat@utexas.edu

Office: GDC 6.726

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Publications


Towards provably performant congestion control
Anup Agarwal, Venkat Arun, Devdeep Ray, Ruben Martins, and Srinivasan Seshan
NSDI 2024
Hairpin: Rethinking packet loss recovery in edge-based interactive video streaming
Zili Meng, Xiao Kong, Jing Chen, Bo Wang, Mingwei Xu, Rui Han, Honghao Liu, Venkat Arun, Hongxin Hu, and Xue Wei
NSDI 2024
Best student paper award
Starvation in end-to-end congestion control
Venkat Arun, Mohammad Alizadeh, and Hari Balakrishnan
SIGCOMM 2023
Quantitative Verification of Scheduling Heuristics
Saksham Goel, Benjamin Mikek, Jehad Aly, Venkat Arun, Ahmed Saeed, and Aditya Akella
Arxiv 2301.04205
Enabling High Quality Real-Time Communications with Adaptive Frame-Rate
Zili Meng, Tingfeng Wang, Yixin Shen, Bo Wang, Mingwei Xu, Rui Han, Honghao Liu, Venkat Arun, Hongxin Hu, and Xue Wei
NSDI 2023
Automating network heuristic design and analysis
Anup Agarwal, Venkat Arun, Devdeep Ray, Ruben Martins, and Srinivasan Seshan
HotNets 2022
Privid: Practical, Privacy-Preserving Video Analytics Queries
Frank Cangialosi, Neil Agarwal, Venkat Arun, Srinivas Narayana, Anand Sarwate, and Ravi Netravali
NSDI 2022
The case for an internet primitive for fault localization
William Sussman, Emily Marx, Venkat Arun, Akshay Narayan, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Aurojit Panda, and Scott Shenker
HotNets 2022
Proposed a modification to BBR that Meta now uses for most of their production traffic
Toward formally verifying congestion control behavior
Venkat Arun, Mina T. Arashloo, Ahmed Saeed, Mohammad Alizadeh, and Hari Balakrishnan
SIGCOMM 2021
Throughput-fairness tradeoffs in mobility platforms
Arjun Balasingam, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Radhika Mittal, Venkat Arun, Ahmed Saeed, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hamsa Balakrishnan, and Hari Balakrishnan
MobiSys 2021
May be the largest antenna array ever used for a single communication link
RFocus: Beamforming Using Thousands of Passive Antennas
Venkat Arun and Hari Balakrishnan
NSDI 2020
Finding safety in numbers with secure allegation escrows
Venkat Arun, Aniket Kate, Deepak Garg, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee
NDSS 2020
Evaluating COPA congestion control for improved video performance
Nitin Garg
FB Engg. Blog 2019
Being used in production at Meta
Copa: Practical Delay-Based Congestion Control for the Internet
Venkat Arun and Hari Balakrishnan
NSDI 2018
Best paper award
Language-directed hardware design for network performance monitoring
Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, Prateesh Goyal, Venkat Arun, Mohammad Alizadeh, Vimalkumar Jeyakumar, and Changhoon Kim
SIGCOMM 2017